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Page 6 • The Battalion TOP 10 Reasons you would love to join tt0 ?e4tiomt StM^ena,!” 1: If you want to learn to sing, no auditions! Everybody sings! 2: Singing burns calories and builds muscle. 3: You wake up at 3 a.m. singing Hullabaloo Caneck Caneck. 4: Singing is good for your love life. 5: You flunked karaoke 101. 6: You can be a charter member in a new group. 7: You’ve been heard singing in the shower! 8: You’re not in any other campus singing group. 9: You’ll love singing great music of Easter, All Saints Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Ten: “ZV&ett "Tfou. *7cuice-!" We’re a new singing group on campus! Come sing with us! Academic Building Music Room 402: Thursday 6:00 p.m. For info, Call sandy or Kirsten @ 847-4004, or Francisco @ 847-7075 or Clayton @ 847-1197 or Lynn @ 862-3870 or Jennifer @ 847-0717 STUDY ABROAD AT SANTA CHIARA! 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Bryan/College Station's first and finest private dormitories are looking for motivated individuals to be a part of the 1996-1997 Resident Advisor Staff. All applicants must have at least one year dormitory resident experience from any residence hall. Applications can be picked-up at the front desk in the University Tower lobby and are due Friday, March 22 by 5:00 p.m. UNIVERSITY TOWER FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 846-4242 Thursday • March 7,1996 Sk By Quatro Senate Continued from Page 1 Ewe Hall By JED WAu_ TC.es E ►ITS The "sane" "BoARt. ov Regents Noo^oo Uou-U I "TheVnC- Stuck you YOfc. L.ON1& E.^OOGY3 ( Mqv! STtcv^ TWEaA V4\\eC.ETT WORTS . student representation, but most of this bill’s support comes from an attempt to undermine the Cor- p’s domain,” Waligura said. “We do block vote and a run off will in jure our vote.” But Herrick said current vot ing practice gives unfair advan tage to the Corps. “All this bill does is ask what the students want,” Herrick said. “It is time for A&M leaders to stop being scared of change.” The Senate took further action, recommending unanimously that common exams for a course be written collectively by professors for each section of that course to ensure fairness to each student. Collectively written common exams would prevent students who are enrolled in a section taught by the course coordinator from having an unfair advantage over students taught by professors who did not make the test. In other business, the Senate: •Called for the cregtion of an optional student e-mail distribu tion list to increase communica tion between the Senate and the student body. •Called for a change in funding of room-rent waivers for military scholarship recipients; currently, funding comes entirely from on- campus students. •Passed a bill allowing one Graduate Student Council officer to be a non-voting member of the Student Senate’s Executive Coun cil and one representative of Stu dent Government to be a non-vot ing member of GSC. •Recommended that Univer sity regulations be changed so that students needing 14 or more hours of a foreign lan guage can be forced into foreign language classes, with prefer ence given by seniority. Loeb Continued from Page 2 Scientists clone sheep in mass Loeb also warned students not to wait for the perfect cause or the “right time,” because activism in general is more important than perfection. He said students should explore options and alternatives for social change by studying history. “Not knowing our history denies us tools for social change,” he said. “Current issues seem overwhelm ing when we aren’t aware of past obstacles. We realize that times may be hard but things are not im possible when we refer to past challenges.” Carla Black, interim chair of MSC Great Issues and a senior bio chemistry major, said bringing Loeb to A&M might compel more students to take active stances in their communities. “Great Issues knows that many Texas A&M students are politically and socially involved,” Black said. “But because our generation often gets a bad rap, we thought this lecture could shed more light on these stu dents and others across the country.” Arin Schall, a freshman political science major, said she expected the speech to concentrate primarily on values, but it turned out to be very motivational for her. “I was really glad he got into the issues of activation,” she said. “As a freshman, I have basically con centrated on making good grades and adjusting in general. He really encouraged me to take time out to get involved.” Emiley Walker, a sophomore business management major, said A&M students should learn from the colorful examples Loeb drew from universities nationwide. “The stories he told of protests of issues and ideas at other schools should motivate us to take a stand,” she said. “We could be doing much more than writing letters to the pa per. We need to be more active.” □ If perfected, the cloning technique could produce animals that give more milk, resist diseases and have other desirable traits. NEW YORK (AP) — In a feat never before ac complished in mammals, scientists have found a way to turn a laboratory dish full of cells into hundreds of genetically identical sheep. Scientists in Scotland took cells from an em bryo, grew thousands of copies in the lab and then used copies to produce sheep from ewes. Experts said if the technique can be perfected, it will be a major gain in the ability to make ge netic changes in livestock for research and to quickly produce animals that give more or better milk or meat, resist diseases or display other de sirable traits. “It is a great achievement,” commented Robert H. Foote, professor emeritus of animal physiology at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. The work was reported in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature by Ian Wilmut, Keith Camp bell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland. The institute does agricul tural research on animals, with government and industry funding. Currently, scientists can produce genetically identical farm animals by such techniques as breaking a single embryo into pieces and im planting each piece in a womb to form a new ani mal. But that approach yields fewer than 20 copies, rather than hundreds. Scientists can already plant genes into farm animals by injecting the genetic material into fertilized eggs. But the new technique can gener ate thousands of cells to receive genes, giving sci entists many more chances to achieve successful gene transfers. As a result, scientists would be able to insert genes more precisely, swap new genes for old or inactivate particular genes in an animal, said animal gene expert Caird Rexroad Jr. That would offer major advantages for study ing farm animal genetics and eventually produc ing better barnyard stock, said Rexroad, re search leader at the Gene Evaluation and Map ping Laboratory at the U.S. Department of Agri culture’s Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Md. The new work has “put us a step closer to do ing that,” he said. Mass-producing hundreds of animals is still years away, Wilmut said, because the technique is currently much too inefficient. The Nature pa per reports the birth of only five lambs from hun dreds of attempts. Wilmut said he believes the technique could also be used eventually for cattle. For other species, like pigs, goats and poultry, the prospects are less clear because of differences in the biology of early development, he said. Wilmut also said he doesn’t know if it would work in people, adding that many scientists would consider this application unethical. For the research, scientists isolated cells from sheep embryos and grew them in laboratory dishes. The cells grew into colonies, which were repeatedly split up to form more and more cells. Then the researchers took unfertilized egg from ewes, pulled out the egg’s genes, and fused the eggs to the laboratory-grown cells. Program Continued from Page 2 Russian department, and we both applied,” Cooke said. “We made a deal with the University to share the job, each of us working part time. “You could say I went into semi-employment, semi-retirement when we were hired.” The Cooks’ situation was the first time A&M split a job between spouses. They both started working full time when the Russian department increased in size. Perry said couples working for the University are hired because of their qualifications, not be cause of convenience. “What we’re guaranteeing is a strong effort to help them find jobs here. But in the final analy sis, the partner has to compete for the job against all the other applicants,” Perry said “The Partner Placement Program gives us a way to get to know people who are looking for jobs. 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